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HOUSTON<\/strong> – FOX 26 heard what Sharon Schoolcraft said happened to her at least four times before.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n It started with a phone call from a number claiming to belong to Wells Fargo Bank. The caller claimed to be an employee of the bank and was alerting to possible fraudulent activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n The caller had access to the account, Sharon and others told us, because he was reading off actual charges they had made.<\/p>\n The caller said someone with security would come to their homes and collect the cut-in-half debit card, or cut it in half in front of the customer.<\/p>\n All the victims were initially told by Wells Fargo they or someone they knew withdrew the funds, so they wouldn’t be getting their money.<\/p>\n Hours after we sent a Wells Fargo spokesperson Sharon’s denial letter, the bank returned her $13,000.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “I’m so super stoked, it’s going to mean a lot to me,” said Sharon. “I can pay back the person I had to borrow money from. I can get my bills back on track. Thank you.”<\/p>\n Why you should care:<\/p>\n Of course, all major banks can be targeted by crooks.<\/p>\n Banks rarely call customers out of the blue. If you get a call, best thing to do is call the bank back or go to the nearest branch.\u00a0<\/p>\n A sense of urgency or asking for your PIN number are huge red flags.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> FOX 26’s Randy Wallace spoke with the customer about what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n Houston<\/a>News<\/a>Consumer<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – FOX 26 heard what Sharon Schoolcraft said happened to her at least four times before. What…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2436,4345,50,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-consumer","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114959612142872006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}